Ok, so I just tried to install my first extension, the Bezier Envelope extension from https://github.com/lemasney/Bezier-Enve ... ape#___top.

I thought this was pretty simple to do, but it's now showing up when I open inkscape. I put the inx and the py files in Inkscape/share/extensions. Isn't this all I need to do?

There is a third file that is a readme, but with a POD extension rather than TXT that I'm used to. I've never seen POD before and don't know what it is. Does this need to go somewhere? If so, where? I tried throwing it in the same place as the inx and py files but the extension still doesn't show up.

Any suggestions? Am I missing something obvious?

Ok, if anyone else runs across this problem, I found a different link at http://screencasters.heathenx.org/wp-co ... e_0.48.zip and that one seems to work fine. Not sure what was wrong with the github version. So it works, but it didn't actually do what I wanted anyway. I didn't realize the envelope will only work with 4 nodes, so oh well. If anyone reads this and wonders or has suggestions, I'm just trying to fit some text in the shape of a basic house type shape so the top of the text arches up to a point. I can do it manually but that's very tedious, or I can sort of do it with the envelope deformation path effect, but it's just not quite getting the perfect straight line arch that I want.

You might have seen this topic or this video tutorial?!

I`m pretty much sure these would help you to adjust nodes and curves to fit the desired shape.

Thank you. I did see those and they will come in EXTREMELY useful in the future. Thank you so much. For this effect though, I was wanting to keep the lines and angles really crisp and straight and all these methods tend to curve the letters in one way or another, even if just slightly. I finally got what I wanted late last night by just cutting the word in half so I could use two 4 sided shapes and use the perspective tool, then arrange them back together like the attachment(don't like the top at all, but the bottom word was the effect I was going for.)

Also, if I don't want the perspective look as much, but still nice straight angles, I can just bend it once upwards in the middle with a path effect and then align all the bottom nodes horizontally.

Y u no use envelope extension so you don't get perspective nonuniform scalings?

Honestly, I didn't really think of it, but this type of perspective look is what I was going for at the time. But either way I would have to cut it into 2 four sided shapes so I didn't think of either one at first til i figured that out. Thank you though. I'll try that one too.